It’s the first working day for 7 Italian start ups at Italian Pavilion. The seminar “Focus on Italian startups world” welcomed to the pitching session’s stage outstanding speakers related to the innovative and digital world.
On 26th of June WEBIT.FESTIVAL EUROPE-Enterprises, Policies, Startups has been inaugurated: it is one of the most influential business networking events in Europe regarding the themes of technological and digital innovation, moreover it is supported by the European Commission and traditionally sponsored by the President of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Mayor of Sofia.
This is an important moment of debate between European public decision makers, national-regional-local governances and actors from manufacturing and economic field, with the aim of identifying development plans and strategies in line with European directives. The event occurs in Sofia, city that has been selected as European headquarters for a traveling event, annually involving exclusively these following cities around the world: Istanbul, Dubai, New Delhi and Singapore.
This 2018 Edition is sponsored by the Digital Economy and Society European Commissioner, Mariya Gabriel, by the Minister of the Presidency of the European Council and by the Mayor of Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova. It occurs within the “European Digital and Innovations Week” (25th-29th of June 2018) during which many assembly events take place, like European Assembly, EU-Cyber security Summit and the European Forum about free press.
Plamen Russev, WEBIT’s CEO and founder, intervened during the official inauguration, joined by Yordanka Fandakova, mayor of Sofia, and by Boyko Borissov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria. Moreover, there were different discussion panels about digital transformation’s dilemma, education and digital skills and especially regarding “Europe: 2030-2050”, with the attendance of European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Mariya Gabriel. Furthermore, the topic was about digital identity and the future of democracy and it occurred in the presence of Lilyana Pavlova, the Ministry of Bulgarian Presidency for European Council.
Alongside the plenary session, many different thematic SUMMIT took place during the event: regarding WEBIT MONEY SUMMIT, a discussion panel about the future of the payments had been attended by eminent speakers, among them the Hon. Lara Comi, member of European Parliament, the Balkan Area General Manager of Mastercard and the founder of “Electric Money” association; the BLOCKCHAIN GLOBAL SUMMIT, WEBIT CITIES SUMMIT was inaugurated by Todor Chobanov, the Deputy Mayor of Sofia, along with DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT AND MEDUA SUMMIT, BULGARIA DIGITAL SUMMIT and FOUNDERS GAME.
Click here to see the agenda and the speakers attending the first day of the WEBIT FESTIVAL EUROPE
